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Conservatives are already gleefully referring to the current economic crisis as “Obama’s recession” – disingenuously and dishonestly, of course, as they make a point of not mentioning that its causes …

More than in many other places, when voters in such countries as the United States, Israel, Japan, Russia or the United Kingdom go to the polls to cast their ballots in national elections, the choices …

This just in from Chicken Little: “Deficit spending – it’s all the rage! But is something wrong with this picture?” The sky-is-falling-in gang notes that, against the backdrop of the still-unfolding, …

Someday, when the history of the current, global financial crisis that started in the U.S. with the subprime-mortgage scandal is written, it will be noted that the governments of capitalist countries …